Glyptaesopus Pilsbry & Olsson 1941

Glyptaesopus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Borsoniidae^[1]

Description

The small shell is slender and contains 5½ sculptured whorls with weakly incised sutures. The aperture is long and narrow and has a thin outer lip. The siphonal canal is short.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Glyptaesopus include:

• Glyptaesopus oldroydi (Arnold, 1903)
• Glyptaesopus phylira (Dall, 1919) ^[3]
• Glyptaesopus proctorae (M. Smith, 1936) ^[4]
• Glyptaesopus xenicus (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932) ^[5]

References

• Pilsbry and Olsson, 1941, Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. Proc. vol. 93. p. 36.
• Radwin (1968), The Systematic Position of Glyptaesopus; The Nautilus vol. 82 (1)
• Keen, A. M. 1971. Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls.